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The Moon on Wednesday, August 22, 1956: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.9% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 10°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on August 22, 1956Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 22 August 1956400,794 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 22, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.9% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.9%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
400,794 km249,042 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (10°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1956 is on Tuesday, August 21, 1956 at 12:38 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 4, 1956 at 18:57 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, August 21, 195612:38
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, August 29, 195604:13

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Wednesday, August 22, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 6, 1956 to the new moon of September 4, 1956, a cycle of 29.31 days.